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It is instructive to contrast how Ezekiel and Hosea end their respective books.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel ends his prophecy with a precise blueprint for the Temple of tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hosea ends his prophecy by declaring, in so many words, that tomorrow there will be no further need for a Temple: \u201c\u2026so will we render for bullocks the offering of our lips.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Of all the temple offerings, why does Hosea choose bulls as the object to be replaced by prayer?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Bulls\u2014and calves\u2014have a fraught history among Jews: the golden calf\u2026the red heifer\u2026the temples featuring calves in Bethel and Dan\u2026the ox as one of the four faces of the Cherubim supporting God\u2019s chariot\u2026their calf\u2019s foot\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yoel bin Nun has a theory, based on a statue he glimpsed in a museum, that in the ancient world the calf was viewed as the vehicle of the divine. The statue he saw was complete: there was a rider\u2014the deity\u2014seated on his mount\u2014the calf.\u00a0 The calves in our Bible are always incomplete, never seen with their rider.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now we see the golden calf anew: When Aaron points to the golden calf and says, \u201cThese are your God O Israel\u201d, he means that this was the mount for God, whom the people were asked to visualize in their minds\u2019 eye, so as to reassure themselves of God\u2019s continuing presence in their midst. It was a blending of the material calf with the immaterial God to assist a people unused to the notion of God. Likewise, when Jeroboam erected statues of calves in his temples, it was as an <\/span>aide memoire <\/span><\/i>so the people could recall the God who led them through the desert.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In order to conceptualize this, it helps to think of the funeral for JFK which I witnessed on TV. A riderless horse was placed in the procession, saddled, with boots inverted in the stirrups. This had a tremendous visceral effect on the onlooker, not because the horse was an object of veneration, but because the tableau was completed in the mind of the viewer: we saw once again the slain leader.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This blending of the material with the immaterial is what the temple and its offerings were all about. But Hosea was awake to the dangers this could cause. We recall that Ezekiel had glimpsed idolatrous goings-on in the very heart of the temple! This was blasphemous, but not antithetical. Hosea has concluded that the very idea of a temple is conducive to the \u201ccalf fallacy.\u201d This is what he means when he concludes:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cFor the paths of the LORD are smooth; The righteous can walk on them, While sinners stumble on them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Only the purest of heart can withstand the dangers of a Temple. Now, Hosea says, it is time for the Jewish people to graduate to a purer form of worship, as befits their maturity. Prayer is not a substitution for Temple but a refinement, an ideal:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cWhat have I to do anymore with idols?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Shabbat Shuva is so named for the opening of the <\/span>haftarah<\/em> <\/span>read on that day, from Hosea 14:2, \u201c<\/span>Shuva Yisrael<\/em> <\/span>\u2013 Return Israel\u201d. In this passage Hosea is prophesying about the path to <\/span>teshuva<\/span><\/em> - repentance.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The importance of words in the act of repentance is evident in the language of these verses. \u201cTake <\/span>words<\/span><\/em> with you and return to God (14:3)\u201d; \u201c<\/span>Say<\/span><\/em> to Him, forgive our iniquities and accept our good, and let our <\/span>lips<\/span><\/em> substitute for our offerings (14:4).\u201d Malbim describes a process of repentance, that begins with regretting one\u2019s misdeeds. During the ten days of repentance before Yom Kippur, we speak aloud to those we have wronged and ask their forgiveness. It\u2019s not enough to simply decide for oneself a path to repentance, we need to verbalize it and share it. Malbim continues that we then use words again to identify those things that stand in our merit and ask God to judge us on those merits. Teshuva <\/em>is not about self-flagellation, it\u2019s about self-awareness - of our good acts and our bad. Finally, it is in our words, not in our physical offerings (which had gone so wrong in the days leading up to this moment), that we ask for redemption.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the opening of this chapter the root of <\/span>teshuva<\/em> <\/span>is used two ways: \u201c<\/span>Shuva Yisrael<\/span><\/em>\u201d (14:2) uses the singular, addressing the nation as a unit, while \u201c<\/span>shuvu <\/span><\/em>\u201d <\/span><\/i>(14:3), in the plural, considers all of the individuals that comprise the nation. Rabbi Steven Sirbu offers this explanation: \u201cOne\u2019s sins (and I might add, good deeds) have ramifications that affect the community, and a nation\u2019s sins impact every individual. It is impossible to fully separate individual and communal culpability and repentance.\u201d So, self-realization, acknowledgement of our deeds (both bad and good) and commitment to repentance are both an individual and a national endeavor.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is power in the word <\/span>teshuva<\/span><\/em> itself. It does not mean atonement, nor repentance. It literally means to return. You can only return to a place you once were. So perhaps the crux of teshuva <\/em>is a return to our true selves; to the connection to God that is always there (God is the constant in this relationship) but that we, as individuals or a nation, have lost sight of.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The book of Hosea ends with a very powerful positive outlook by the prophet. The images of a regrowth of the northern tribes and a return to God provide a beautiful ending to what is at times a very tragic book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Verse 9 takes a theme that we have seen before and creates a beautiful image. In the previous major prophetic books and in the book of Kings, there is usually a call to smash the idols, and remove them from the houses, burn them in the fields, etc.\u00a0 One could even imagine an anti-idol squad traveling through the land seizing molten images, <\/span>Ashera<\/em> <\/span>trees, and altars from the houses of the inhabitants. As we saw with King Josiah, oftentimes these idol seizures were not voluntary. The people were not turning away from idolatry willingly.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hosea sees this reformation differently. In Hosea\u2019s final vision the people do not merely turn in their idols, or even reject idolatry.\u00a0 Instead, according to the prophet, the people decide \u201cWhat more have I to do with idols?\u201d (verse 9). 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The end of Hosea is a paean to <\/span>Teshuvah<\/span><\/em>. Hosea calls, \u201cReturn, O Israel, to the Lord your God,\u201d and the appeal seems to succeed, for God answers, \u201cI will take them back in love, for my anger is turned away from them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But this is not the first time in this story that Israel has tried to return to God. Twice in the book, Israel attempts to repent \u2013 in chapters 6 and 14. It is fascinating to compare them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chapter 6 opens: \u201cCome, let us turn back to the LORD: He attacked, and He can heal us\u2026 we shall be whole by His favor\u2026 His appearance is as sure as daybreak, And He will come to us like rain, Like latter rain that refreshes the earth\u201d (6:1-3).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Israel expects that if she returns to God, God will return to her overnight. Like a rainstorm, bringing rivulets of reviving water running over the parched land, filling up cracked cisterns; so too, they expect that God will flood His people with renewed love.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To which, the prophet laments that God does not work like that. \u201cWhat can I do for you, Ephraim, What can I do for you, Judah, When your goodness is like morning clouds, Like dew so early gone? \u2026 For I desire goodness, not sacrifice; Obedience to God, rather than burnt offerings\u201d (6:4-6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He wants enduring love and lasting commitment, not fleeting gifts. Israel\u2019s superficial change of heart is not the faithfulness that God seeks.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In our chapter, by contrast, Israel repents again, and this time their contrition is accepted: \u201cReturn, O Israel, to the LORD your God, For you have fallen because of your sin. Take words with you And return to the LORD. Say to Him: \u201cForgive all guilt And accept what is good\u2026 I will heal their affliction, Generously will I take them back in love; For My anger has turned away from them. I will be to Israel like dew\u201d (14:2-6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This time, their contrition is accepted. Israel returns with words, not sacrifices; she vows to forsake her paramour idols and commit to exclusivity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Israel\u2019s first, failed effort at <\/span>Teshuvah<\/em> <\/span>was an attempt to have with God the kind of intermittent ecstatic relationship, likened to rain, that she had enjoyed with the lovers of the early part of the book. God subtly corrects the people: \u201cYou think you desire a relationship with me full of the passion, uncertainty and excitement, that you know from idolatry? 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The book of Hosea concludes with a recipe for repentance. The prophet tells the people (v.2): \u201c\u05e9\u05d5\u05d1\u05d4, <\/span>shuva<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>Return!\u201d He doesn\u2019t say, \u201cGod will bring you back\u201d; he says, \u201c<\/span>you<\/span><\/em> return, bring yourselves back!\u201d He then tells them how to: \u201ctake words with you\u201d (v.3). Don\u2019t bring sacrifices, don\u2019t bring gifts: the first step is admitting you have a problem, is being prepared to admit your guilt, to bring that admission to God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The next step is putting their faith totally in God. Once they have done this, we reach the final step: God takes them back. The profundity and completeness of this final step is startling. These people, who have for generations sinned, have for generations worshiped false gods and abused the vulnerable, will not only be accepted again by God, but will be taken back completely and healed with love! The result of assuaging God\u2019s anger is not, like it might be with a human being, a gradual process of renewing a relationship. The result of assuaging God\u2019s anger is immediate and complete love.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The prophet paints a magnificent picture of the flowering of Israel under the care of God\u2019s love. It is a picture of beauty and strength, blossoms and roots, prosperity and health. The prophet concludes this image by telling us that Israel\u2019s healing will heal others. Our own healing, our own repentance, can help bring about the healing and repentance of others.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But it all starts with admitting you have a problem. Hosea, like so many of the prophets, has begged and pleaded with his people to be introspective, to look critically at themselves and their society and see the corruption and flaws within. Hosea knows that people cannot change until they can see that they need to, and that\u2019s why the first step is so important. <\/span>Shuva<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>return, he says, not just to God, but to yourselves.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The book concludes by telling us that,\u201c\u2018\u05db\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9\u05be\u05d9\u05b0\u05e9\u05c1\u05b8\u05e8\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd \u05d3\u05bc\u05b7\u05e8\u05b0\u05db\u05b5\u05d9 \u05d4\u201d, the paths of God are <\/span>yesharim<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> (v.10). The root \u05d9.\u05e9.\u05e8, <\/span>y-sh-r<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> means rightness and righteousness, but also straight and level. The path may be right, but it is not necessarily easy. The JPS translation captures this by translating \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd yesharim,\u00a0<\/em>as \u201csmooth\u201d: the path may be straight and level, but smooth can be slippery, icy, treacherous. The righteous walk on it, and sinners stumble, concludes the book. But if the prophet has taught us anything, the first step to being righteous, the first step on the slippery path, is admitting you have a problem.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":76686,"alt":"","title":"hos14-problem","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem.png","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem-300x200.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem-768x512.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem-1024x683.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem-1200x800.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem-630x420.png","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"The First Step On A Slippery Path","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"It all starts with admitting you have a problem","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":76686,"alt":"","title":"hos14-problem","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem.png","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem-300x200.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem-768x512.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem-1024x683.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem-1200x800.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-problem-630x420.png","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Hosea","chapter":"14","chapter_main_number":"514","date":"20270818","wall_id":"514"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":7,"id":"76679","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"2","name":"Those Sins Of Ours Just Didn\u2019t Work Out ","post_title":"Those Sins Of Ours Just Didn\u2019t Work Out","slug":"those-sins-of-ours-just-didnt-work-out","old_id":"76679","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":73524,"post_title":"Yaakov Beasley","slug":"yaakov-beasley","old_id":"73524","first_name":"Yaakov ","last_name":"Beasley ","description":"Yaakov Beasley is the Tanakh Coordinator at Yeshivat Hesder Lev haTorah, the host of the TanachTalks podcast, and the author of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: Lights in the Valley (Maggid Press, 2020). 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Chapter 13 described the final downfall of the northern kingdom, culminating with the first verse of chapter 14, \"Samaria will be laid waste, for she has rebelled \u2026 they will fall by the sword \" (14:1). Here, Hosea's message should have ended \u2013 yet Hosea continues with another nine verses, hoping against hope that the people will finally heed his message and repent before the final calamity befalls them. But not only is he hopeful \u2013 he tells them what they have to do:\u00a0 \u201cTake words with you And return to the LORD. Say to Him: \u201cForgive all guilt And accept what is good; Instead of bulls we will pay [The offering of] our lips. Assyria shall not save us...Nor ever again will we call Our handiwork our god, Since in You alone orphans find pity!\u201d Even if they only recite these words, promises Hosea, then God will \"love them freely.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jewish tradition has identified this chapter as the haftarah<\/em> for <\/span>Shabbat Shuvah<\/em> <\/span>\u2013 the Shabbat during the Days of Awe between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. We would have expected the reading of choice to be inspiring, uplifting. Yet that is not the case \u2013 instead we are confronted with the lowest level of repentance. What are the people confessing? Not that their sins were wrong or that they regret them \u2013 just that they didn't work out. Had Assyria come to their aid, they would not acknowledge any error on their part. They are the proverbial thief brought before the parole board, who when asked whether he has used his time in incarceration to ponder his actions and reflect, answers that \"Next time, I will wear quieter shoes\".<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Israel that Hosea speaks to hasn't changed from the beginning of the book. In chapter 2, the prophet states about Ephraim that \u201cPursue her lovers as she will, She shall not overtake them\u2026 Then she will say, \u201cI will go and return To my first husband, For then I fared better than now.\u201d Again, what motivates Israel\u2019s return \u2013 not love and commitment, but the purely mercenary evaluation that it was better for them to return to God than not to return.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Is this cold calculation not a form of hypocrisy, that cheapens the meaning of true repentance? Rav Moshe Lichtenstein answers this with the following parable.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Imagine a child who leaves his house because of tensions between him and his parents, proclaiming that he will never need their kindness, never take any money from them, and perhaps never even speak to them.\u00a0 But things don't work out, and after a period of privation, he knocks on the door, ashamed, and asks to come home. Is there any doubt how his parents will react? \u2026 Returning to God out of utilitarian motives still attests to the basic connection between Israel and God, for Israel returns to Him, and no one else.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Those Sins Of Ours Just Didn\u2019t Work Out","tile_main_caption":"But even repentance for utilitarian, mercenary reasons attests to the connection with God - the only one to Whom we can return","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Hosea","chapter":"14","chapter_main_number":"514","date":"20270818","wall_id":"514"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":8,"id":"76670","color":"#faeed8","size":"1","name":"Shabbat Teshuva\u00a0 ","post_title":"Shabbat Teshuva\u00a0","slug":"shabbat-teshuva","old_id":"76670","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":36669,"post_title":"Yakov Azriel","slug":"yakov-azriel","old_id":"36669","first_name":"Yakov ","last_name":"Azriel","description":"Yakov Azriel, who lives in Israel, has published five books of poetry in the USA and hundreds of poems in journals and magazines. His poems have won twenty-two prizes in international poetry competitions, and he has twice been awarded fellowships from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.","short_description":"Yakov Azriel is an English language poet who lives in Israel","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":36670,"alt":"","title":"Yakov.Azriel.Photo","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668.jpg","width":1099,"height":1519,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668-217x300.jpg","medium-width":217,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668-741x1024.jpg","medium_large-width":741,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668-741x1024.jpg","large-width":741,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668.jpg","1536x1536-width":1099,"1536x1536-height":1519,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668.jpg","2048x2048-width":1099,"2048x2048-height":1519,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668-868x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":868,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668-304x420.jpg","home_baner-width":304,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"514","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"\"Return O Israel unto the Lord your God \u2026.\" (Hosea 14:2)\r\n","post_main_content_content":"

One spring, trees didn't grow leaves.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Grass didn't sprout.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Flowers didn't blossom.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One summer, no butterflies came.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Nor did any bird arrive<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Except for a hoopoe<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>That King Solomon had conversed with.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For King Solomon, wise enough <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To write three thousand parables,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Had learned to speak the language of the birds, <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And ordered a golden cage for the hoopoe, queen of the birds,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To be built in his royal gardens.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From Solomon the hoopoe learned the wisdom of the Jews.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And after the king's death, she would listen to the teachings of the sages<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>As she perched on branches outside their open windows.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>She escorted Elijah <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>When the prophet ascended to heaven on a chariot of fire,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Then glided down to console the ravens<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Crying for bread<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Now that Elijah could no longer feed them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At the end of summer,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The hoopoe alone remained with us,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>An olive-leaf in her beak,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A reminder of Ararat.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If only the hoopoe could fly back to Elijah <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And ask him to return;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The hearts of the fathers are now turning to their sons,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The hearts of the sons are turning to their fathers,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Like eggs in a hoopoe's nest<\/span>
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This chapter contains the opening verses of the haftarah that is recited on the Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Hakippurim, which is called Shabbat Shuvah because of the first words of 14:2: \u201cReturn (<\/span>shuvah<\/span><\/i>) O Israel to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled on account of your sins.\u201d See also our comments to this haftarah in <\/span>our introduction to Trei Asar<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The following verse reads: \u201cTake words with you and return to the LORD. Say to Him: \u201cForgive all guilt and accept what is good (<\/span>tov<\/span><\/em>); instead of bulls we will pay [the offering of] our lips\u201d (14:3). This verse is cited in Talmudic discussions as evidence that Jewish prayer is, primarily, a substitute for sacrifice (<\/span>see our comments on Hosea Chapter 6<\/span><\/a>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One phrase in it, however, has wide ranging implications for the consideration of what is, arguably, the most central part of the daily liturgy, the Amidah (\u201cthe standing prayer\u201d), colloquially known as <\/span>Shemoneh Esrei<\/em> <\/span>(literally: \u201c18\u201d), on account of the 18 blessings it ostensibly contains.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Everyone conversant with this prayer knows that it really numbers 19 blessings; that there were originally 18, until a 19<\/span>th<\/span> blessing (against the heretics -\u00a0<\/span>minim<\/span><\/em>) was added later. There is, however, an alternate scenario, attested to by both a Midrashic passage and the evidence of the Cairo Genizah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Midrash Bemidbar Rabbah (Korach 18:21), states:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Israel said: Master of the universe, when the Temple stood, we would bring sacrifices and receive atonement. Now, we are left with only prayer. <\/span>Tov<\/span><\/em> [the \u201cgood\u201d of 14:3] adds up alphanumerically to 17; [but] the [Amidah] prayer has 19 blessings? Subtract the blessing against the heretics, which was instituted at Yavneh, and \u201cthe flowering (<\/span>tzemach<\/span><\/em>) of David,\u201d which was instituted after that.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In other words, the Amidah originally consisted of only 17 blessings (corresponding to the numerical value of <\/span>tov<\/span><\/em>) to which two blessings were added later, bringing the total first to 18\u2014hence the sobriquet Shemoneh Esrei\u2014and later yet to 19. Liturgical texts, such as <\/span>siddurim<\/span><\/em>, prayer books, retrieved from the Cairo Genizah provide evidence that as late as the High Middle Ages, Jews who followed the rites of Eretz Yisrael, even if they were living in Egypt, had only 18 blessings in their Amidah, combining the adjacent blessings of rebuilding Jerusalem and the flowering of David into one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Babylonian rite, on the other hand, split these in two\u2014probably in honor of the Babylonian Exilarch, who was a descendant of King David\u2014thereby yielding the 19 blessing format that is universal today.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":76695,"alt":"","title":"hos14-tallit-synagogue","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue.jpg","width":880,"height":582,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue-300x198.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":198,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue-768x508.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":508,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue.jpg","large-width":880,"large-height":582,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue.jpg","1536x1536-width":880,"1536x1536-height":582,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue.jpg","2048x2048-width":880,"2048x2048-height":582,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue.jpg","post_full_size-width":880,"post_full_size-height":582,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue-635x420.jpg","home_baner-width":635,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Hosea and Jewish Prayer","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"And the 19 blessings in the prayer of the 18","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":76695,"alt":"","title":"hos14-tallit-synagogue","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue.jpg","width":880,"height":582,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue-300x198.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":198,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue-768x508.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":508,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue.jpg","large-width":880,"large-height":582,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue.jpg","1536x1536-width":880,"1536x1536-height":582,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue.jpg","2048x2048-width":880,"2048x2048-height":582,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue.jpg","post_full_size-width":880,"post_full_size-height":582,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos14-tallit-synagogue-635x420.jpg","home_baner-width":635,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Hosea","chapter":"14","chapter_main_number":"514","date":"20270818","wall_id":"514"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":10,"id":"76657","color":"#f7e9e9","size":"1","name":"Ending With An Editorial Coda ","post_title":"Ending With An Editorial Coda","slug":"ending-with-an-editorial-coda","old_id":"76657","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":54356,"post_title":"Robert Alter","slug":"robert-alter","old_id":"54356","first_name":"Robert ","last_name":"Alter","description":"Robert Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. 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14:10 \u201c\u2018Who is wise and can grasp these things, discerning, and can know them? For straight are the ways of the LORD, and the righteous shall walk on them, but rebels shall stumble on them.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The language of this concluding verse is entirely constituted of formulas from Wisdom literature. The inevitable conclusion is that this is a coda added by an editor that asks us to contemplate the moral wisdom of this collection of Hosea\u2019s prophecies.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While the clause is formulaic (and the noun here could also be represented, as many translations do, as \u201csinners\u201d), the editorial choice of a formula with \u201cstumbles\u201d makes a nice envelope structure with \u201cstumbled\u201d in verse 2 at the begining of the prophecy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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  1. Dialogue is of the essence<\/em>. The prophecy is structured as a dialogue between the people and their God. This isn\u2019t just a literary conceit, it is the heart of the matter. After a long and difficult history of being cut off, the speech and mutual interaction are the keys to intimacy and repentance.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Important protocol.<\/em> How does one repent, \u201cdo <\/span>teshuvah\u201d<\/span><\/i>? This chapter is the basis for the \u201cteshuvah protocol\u201d that Rambam formulates in his Laws of Teshuvah, which include: ceasing to sin, committing to not sinning in the future, regret, confession, and avoiding repeating the sin (see <\/span>Hilchot Teschuvah, 2:2<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Shabbat (t)shuva<\/em>. The prophecy calls the listener to repentance (<\/span>teshuvah<\/span><\/i>), and promises an opportunity for love, and is read in synagogues as the haftarah on the Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the height of the ten days of <\/span>teshuvah<\/span><\/i>, repentance.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Have a word, not a cow.<\/em> The phrase \u201cInstead of bulls we will pay [The offering of] our lips\u201d (verse 3) has been interpreted to mean that prayer, the service of the heart, replaces the bulls, the service of sacrifice.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. The blessing of dew<\/em>. Twice previously in Hosea (chs. 6 and 13), \u201cdew\u201d was a negative image for superficial or unserious behavior by the people. Verse 6 here redeems that image, and the situation, seeing dew as a positive blessing: \u201cI will be to Israel like dew; He shall blossom like the lily, He shall strike root like a Lebanon tree.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  6. Chazak<\/em> - May we be strong and strengthened. 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